UF Quest

Fall 2020 Quest 1 Courses

About Quest 1

The UF Quest program invites students to consider why the world is the way it is and what they can do about it. Students examine questions that are difficult to answer and hard to ignore in a world that is swiftly changing and becoming increasingly more complex. What makes life worth living? What makes a society a fair one? How do we manage conflicts? Who are we in relation to other people or to the natural world?

Quest 1 courses fulfill the UF Quest 1 requirement and 3 credits of the General Education requirement in the Humanities. Some may also fulfill either the Diversity (D) or the International (N) requirement and/or count toward the Writing requirement (see below). Students required to complete the UF Core (aka "Good Life") requirement may substitute any Quest 1 course for IDS 1161. 

Quest 2 courses cannot be taken to fulfill either the UF Quest 1 or UF Core requirement.

Current Students

During Advance Registration, current students may register for IDS 1161 in order to fulfill the UF Core requirement. All other Quest 1 courses are reserved for incoming students. During Drop/Add, the restrictions will be lifted and currents students may register for any Quest 1 course that still has openings in order to fulfill the UF Core requirement.

New Students

New Fall admits are designated either the Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 semester to complete the UF Quest 1 requirement. Most new students* will receive an email with a link to a survey that they will need to complete in order to find out which is their designated semester to take a Quest 1 course and how they can choose their Quest 1 course (see the New Student FAQ page).

You can learn more about the Fall options by consulting the course descriptions provided below. Every effort will be made to assign students a course based on their preferences. If Fall 2020 is your designated semester to complete the requirement, you may need to wait until Spring 2021 if you are unable to be matched to a Fall course.  

*If you are a new PaCE student, an Honors student, or a student athlete, you will not receive a survey. Instead, you will learn about your options during Preview (see the New Student FAQ page). 

IDS 1161 (multiple class numbers): What is the Good Life?
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15378 and 15379): An Echo of the Invisible World
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15380, 15401, 15402): Post-Holocaust American Jews
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15381): Cultural Animals
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15382): Autobiography in American Performance and Literature
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15405): The Idea of Happiness
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15406, 15407, 15408, 15409, 15410, 15435): Places and Spaces
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15411): Identity of the Self from Classical Antiquity to the Digital Era
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15430): Dance, Race, Gender
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15432): Writing Life: Art, Drama, Film, Literature, Poetry, and You
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15433): Globalization Cities Cinema
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15434): Compassion and the Arts  
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15436): Shelter Development
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15463): Art of Identity & Health
IDS2935 (Class Number: 21388, 21389, 21390): American Constitutionalism
IDS2935 (Class Number: 22915): Democracy in Theory and Action
IDS2935 (Class Number: 22919, 22920, 22921, 23069, 23070, 23071): The Horror, The Horror: Representations of War and Political Violence
IDS2935 (Class Number: 22927): The European Experience: A Humanities Perspective
IDS2935 (Class Number: 22928, 22929, 22930, 22931, 22932, 22933): Digital Literacy and the Humanities
IDS2935 (Class Number: 22934): Nature, Spirituality & Popular Culture
IDS2935 (Class Number: 22957, 22958, 22959, 22960, 22961, 22962): The Long Civil Rights Movement
IDS2935 (Class Number: 23067): God, Humanity and Evolution
IDS2935 (Class Number: 23068): Artistic Revelation
IDS2935 (Class Number: 26465): Why Tell Stories?

Honors Quest 1 Courses

All new first-year Honors students are required to take an Honors Quest 1 course to complete the UF Quest 1 requirement. Sections listed below are reserved for students in the Honors program. 

IDS2935 (Class Number: 15403): Nature & Culture: Lying & Deception
IDS2935 (Class Number: 15404): Social Impact of Music Entrepreneurs

IDS2935 (Class Number: 15431): Medicine, Science and the Dawn of Reason

 

IDS2935 (Class Number: 15438): The Examined Life: Life Well Played

 

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